Fender.



No. 842,004. PATENTBDJAN'. 22, 190.7.

s. D. YOHARRA.

FENDER-L APPLICATION FILED ILA-Y3, 190s.

SAMUEL D. OHARRA, OF WEST WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed May 3, 1906. Serial No. 314,992.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. OHARRA, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at West Washington, in the county of Washington andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Fenders, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements instreet-car fenders and the invention has for its object to provide afender that will prevent persons from contacting with the trucks andoperating mechanism of a car, the fender being constructed to support aperson should he accidentally be run down by a car.

In constructing my improved fender I aim to normally maintain the samein an elevated position above the track over which a car travels andemploying novel means for automatically releasing the fender to permitit to travel upon the track. In this connection I also employ novelmeans forelevating a fender after it has been used, said means beingconstructed whereby it will not be necessary for the motorman of a carto leave his car in order to return the fender to its nor-- malposition.

My improved fender is extremely simple in construction, strong anddurable, com paratively inexpensive to manufacture, and highly efficientfor the purposes for which it is used.

The detail construction of the fender will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and then specifically claimed, and, referring to the drawingsaccompanying this application, like numerals of reference designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, in

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of a car equippedwith my improved fender. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of thesame, illustrating the actuating mechanism thereof and Fig.v 8 is a planof the fender.

To put my invention into practice, I provide the platform 1 of a car 2with outwardlyextending side brackets 3 3 to receive the pintles 5 50f arectangular frame 6, which constitutes my improved fender. The frame isprovided with longitudinally disposed braces 7 7 and with a woven-wirefabric 8 or a similar flexible netting. The front rail 9 of thefender-frame e is provided with rollers Upon the shaft 15 is fixed aratchet-wheel 1 6, and loosely mounted upon said shaft is anoperating-lever 17, said lever being provided with spring-held pawl 19,said awl normally engaging the ratchet-wheel 16 of the shaft 15.

The brackets 15 15 carry a transverse rod 20, upon which is pivoted aweighted pawl 21, adapted to normally engage the ratchet-wheel 16. Theplatform 1 of the car is provided with a pivoted tread 22, whichconnects with the weighted pawl 21. by a chain or cable 23, said treadbeing held in an elevated position by said pawl 21.

' In operation the fender-frame 6 is normally maintained in the elevatedposition, and should a person be accidentally run down by the car themotorman depresses the tread 22 and disengages the pawls 19 and21 fromthe wheel 16, the pawl 21 striking the I pawl 19, which permits of thefender-frame descending by gravity, the weight of the frame unwindingthe cable 14 from the shaft 15. After the fender-frame has served itspurpose the motorman or operator of the car 2 oscillates the lever 17,which, through the medium of the pawl 19, rotates the shaft 15 and windsthe cables 14 14 upon said shaft to maintain the fender-frame 6 in itsoriginal and normal position. During this operation the'weighted pawl 21serves to lock the ratchet-Wheel 16, preventing a rearward ro-- tationof said ratchet-wheel, and consequently by a few oscillating movementsof the lever 17 the fender-frame can be easily and quickly returned toits normal position.

I do not care to confine myself to the type of fender-frame shown, andsuch changes in the construction and operation of the fender as are,permissible by the appended claims may be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender, the combination with the dashboard and platform of acar, of brackets carried by said platform and said dashboard, afender-frame pivotally mounted between the brackets of said platform,rollers journaled upon the forward edge of said frame and adapted totravel upon the track over which the car passes, angularly-disposed armscarried by said frame, a shaft jcurnaled in the brackets of saiddashboard, cables wound upon said shaft and connecting with said arms, aratchet-wheel carried by said shaft, an operating-lever loosely mountedupon said shaft, a pawl carried by said lever and engaging said wheel, aWeighted pawl engaging said wheel, and means to simultaneously releaseboth of said pawls, substantially as described.

2, In a fender, the combination with the platform of a car, of afender-frame carried by said platform, a shaft journaled above saidplatform, cables Wound upon said shaft and connecting with said frame,means to r0- tate said shaft to elevate said fender-frame, and means torelease the last-named means, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

SAMUEL D. OHARRA.

Witnesses:

A. C. MITQHELL, JOHN REED.

